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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (2142)	1/4/2006 5:08:16 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224704

Enron Tapes Expose Bush Plans To Appoint Ken Lay (* Additional tapes confirm Bush's plans for Ken Lay which are part of the film "Enron", which you should rent and see to know the true evil of Bushies.) Patton Boggs Files New Tape Recordings Revealing Enron’s Alleged Fraud February 3, 2005 Washington DC, February 3—Washington, DC-based law firm Patton Boggs filed previously unreleased tape recordings of Enron phone calls at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) revealing new evidence of Enron’s alleged fraud. A Patton Boggs team, led by Partner Debbie Swanstrom, is assisting a governmental utility in Washington State, Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington, against energy corporation Enron. “It is now well known that Enron stole money from electricity customers in the past, but what many people do not realize is that Enron is still picking the pockets of electric consumers for even more money now,” Swanstrom noted. Ms. Swanstrom, who focuses on electricity policy, represents Snohomish before FERC and in the U.S. Courts of Appeal. She was instrumental in obtaining the release of recordings seized by the Department of Justice and later assisted Snohomish in obtaining new recordings from Enron’s Houston office during the FERC discovery process. Tapes filed by Patton Boggs at FERC in 2004 attracted the attention of national news media and U.S. lawmakers, several of whom-such as U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA)-have been outspoken advocates for stronger consumer protection by FERC. The recordings provide new evidence of Enron’s alleged corruption in the voices of its own employees. Employees refer to Enron’s top managers as a “bunch of crooks,” who “lied right to our faces,” and knew what Enron was doing was “basically a Ponzie scheme” to inflate Enron’s earnings. One caller, who apparently refused to follow instructions to cook Enron’s book, expressed fear that he “might get fired for marking the book correctly,” but “go to jail for cookin’ it.” In other conversations, recorded prior to Enron’s financial downfall, callers optimistically predict that Ken Lay, the former head of Enron, would become the new FERC Chairman or Secretary of the Treasury, noting how “impressive” it would be to see “his signature on the dollar bills.” After Enron went into bankruptcy, however, Enron employees blamed Mr. Lay for Enron’s downfall. In the words of one caller, “nothing happened at Enron that Ken Lay didn’t bless,” and “if he wasn’t aware, then he should have been aware, so it’s his fault too.” The new recordings also allege that Enron was “makin’ money hand over fist” while secretly engaging in colorfully named gaming schemes-such as “ricochet” and “death star”-and show that Enron understood price gouging in the West could “drive the country into a recession.” Among the most startling new revelations contained in the recordings is that an Enron employee, acting in concert with an employee of a generator in the West, plotted to shut down a power plant under false pretenses at a time when a critical power shortage existed.